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αὖος , η, ον, Att. αὖος , α, ον, also ος, ον Arist.Pr.860a28, Philostr. VS1.21.1:—
A.dry, “ξύλον” a pole, Il.23.327; αὖα παλαί, περίκηλα, of timber, Od.5.240, cf. Pl.Lg.761c; αὔην καὶ διερὴν ἀρόων (sc. γῆν) Hes.Op.460; βόας αὔας shields of ox-hide, Il.12.137, cf. 17.493; so, of hippopotamus' hide, Hdt.2.71; “τρύφος ἄρτου” stale, AP6.105 (Apollonid.); withered, “στέφανος” Ar.Eq.534.
2. of sound, αὖον ἀϋτεῖν or αὔειν give a dry, rasping sound, “κόρυθες δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὖον ἀΰτευν” Il.12.160; αὖον ἄϋσεν [θώρηξ] 13.441; αὖον δέ μοι οἶκος ἀϋτεῖ prob. in Epic. Oxy. 1794.8.
3. αὖον ἀπὸ χλωροῦ τάμνειν, i. e. to cut the nail from the quick, Hes.Op.743.
4. drained dry, exhausted, Alex.158, Theoc.8.48 (Comp.), prob. in Ant.Lib.24.1.
5. thirsty, “δίψῃ αὔη” IG14.638 (Petelia), cf. GDI4959a (Eleutherna), Luc.Luct.8.
6. trembling, shivering (like a dry leaf), of the aged, Ar.Lys.385; esp. of fear, “αὖός εἰμι τῷ δέει” Men.Epit.480, cf.Pk.163, J.BJ1.19.5: abs., ib.6.4.2, Hld.1.12.
7. metaph., 'stony broke', without money, Luc. Tox. 16, DMeretr.14.1, Alciphr.3.70.
8. of lit. style, dry, “ἰδέα λόγων” Philostr.VS1.20.2.
9. αὔη ψυχὴ σοφωτάτη dub. in Heraclit.118. (Cf. Lith. sauũsas 'dry', OE. séar.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aristophanes, Knights, 534
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.71
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 460
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 743
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.137
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.160
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    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 1.19.5
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.4.2
    • Plato, Laws, 761c
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 385
    • Lucian, De luctu, 8
    • Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, 16
    • Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 14.1
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.20.2
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